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...competes with his unlikely foster brother, the salty sea-tar Richard, for Rose's hand. The first act is also plagued by the appearance of Mad Margaret, a woman supposedly crazed with love for Despard, who comes off less as a humorous character than as a frightening, overplayed British Cassandra...
...Cassandra Wilson -- Farley's choice as the best jazz vocalist in America -- will make a rare TV appearance on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on Monday December 12 (for time check local TV listings). Says Farley: "Even if you don't care for O'Brien's brand of humor, it's worth tuning in that night just to hear Wilson's wondrous voice...
...play is the paralysis that Sylvia Gellburg suffers in her legs, which has no apparent physical cause. Is it a result of her sexless and bitter marriage? Is it linked to the futile assimilationism of her Jew-among-Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency? Or is her disability a plea for attention? Meditating on these dilemmas are Sylvia (Amy Irving), her volatile husband (Ron Rifkin) and a doctor (David Dukes), who, without training, tries to psychoanalyze...
...Music: Cassandra Wilson is jazz's most exciting singer...
...Greek mythology, Cassandra was a prophet who rebuffed the advances of Apollo, God of Music, and was thus given the curse that her prophecies would never be believed. The Gods of Pop Music would love to see Cassandra Wilson $ submit, and she sometimes responds to the pressure to seek a larger audience. This summer, for instance, she will sing the title track on When Doves Cry, an album of Prince songs performed by jazz musicians and vocalists. But even when covering pop songs, she gives them jazz depth. "I've gone too far into jazz to ever abandon...